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Definition of brutalist in English:

brutalist

noun & adjective

‘In this derelict part of Glasgow lie empty warehouses only a stone's throw from trendy clubs and the brutalist architecture of Strathclyde University.’

‘The last time architects took such ‘risks’ in Boston, during the urban renewal era of the early 1960s, the results included the brutalist City Hall - voted regularly by Bostonians as the most hated building in their city.’

‘He agrees that, aside from their occasional beauty, there is also a compelling, authoritarian power in these brutalist buildings.’

‘The Magnum centre, an hour southwest of Glasgow and incongruously placed between a sprawling industrial estate and the angry grey sea, is a classic of Scotland's new-town brutalist school of architecture.’